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Sunday, March 29, 2015

"... the American public views Bush’s time in the White House as 'overwhelmingly negative.'" We don't need another Bush!

...................................................................................................................................................................COMMENTS:* Please feel free to focus on Bush all you want, I have not spoken to a single Republican who would vote for him.* In fact, all of the Republicans running are new faces...but are still using the Bush platform . You can put lipstick on a pig..but its still a pig* I am 100% Republican and if this man, Jeb Bush, is the best that we have to offer, then we may as well just detonate all nukes on ourselves, we would be better off.
...................................................................................................................................................................DNC unveils clip reel tying Jeb Bush to brother’s policies

New reel suggests Democratic attack strategy should the former Florida governor win the GOP primary

By Michael Walsh, March 25, 2015

New Bush. Same policies.

That’s what the Democratic National Committee hopes to hammer home about the possibility of another Bush presidency.

The DNC strung together a news-clip reel of presumptive GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush agreeing with former President George W. Bush on every issue.

“I’m the only Republican that was in office when he was in office as president that never disagreed with him. And I’m not gonna start now. Why would I do that now after two years?” he said in an interview used in the reel.

The DNC shared the reel with Yahoo News on Wednesday in conjunction with a fundraiser featuring the Bush brothers in Dallas.

It reveals a potential main line of attack against the former Florida governor — a blatant attempt to link him to his polarizing older brother.

“His own man? I think not. The Bush economy favors the richest over the middle class, and on that core agenda there is absolutely no daylight between Jeb Bush and his brother,” said DNC national press secretary Holly Shulman.

As the 43rd president, George W. Bush’s approval rating fluctuated from a high of 92 percent in the aftermath of 9/11 to historic lows, just 19 percent, toward the end of his time in the Oval Office, according to the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.

It is for this reason, in part, that in 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama invoked Bush during presidential debates — prompting his opponent, Sen. John McCain, to reply, “Sen. Obama, I am not President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago.”

The Pew Research Center says the American public views Bush’s time in the White House as “overwhelmingly negative.”

“A Jeb Bush presidency would be about looking out for himself and people like him over the middle class. Sound familiar?” Shulman said. “Not only has that been Jeb Bush’s record as governor, but we know what to expect from a Bush presidency because we’ve seen it before: policies that wreck the economy and give massive breaks to the wealthy and corporations at everyone else’s expense.”

But the Bush brothers have not always been in lockstep. At times, it has looked more like sibling rivalry played out on the national stage.

The elder Bush repeatedly denied Jeb’s requests for disaster relief in Florida — at a rate greater than the national average.

According to the RNC, the former secretary of state promoted a health care plan that is identical to Obamacare and has been “a key player in the White House’s failed leadership on foreign policy.”

Meanwhile, plenty of people are simply upset that — with the election of Jeb or Hillary — the White House will have been passed back and forth between two families since 1989, barring the Obama years.
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